Release 0.36

[lidel]

Part of ongoing maintenance of key libraries and services ipshipyard/roadmaps#1 and ipshipyard/roadmaps#6

Meta

• Release owner: @lidel
• Release reviewer/backup: @gammazero
• Expected RC1 date: ~ Jun 11 or 18th
• 🚢 Expected final release date: Jun 25 or July 9th
• Release PR: TBD
• Accompanying PR for improving the release process: N/A
• Internal Staging tests by Shipyard: TBD
• Changelog: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/blob/master/docs/changelogs/v0.36.md

Items In Scope

Required

This release continues focus on HTTP retrieval, provider system improvements, and reducing cost of running bitswap's libp2p client/server.

• panic on daemon shutdown fix: boxo with fix(bitswap/httpnet): idempotent Stop() boxo#920
• boxo/bitswap/httpnet not keeping http connections forever: bitswap/httpnet: Disconnect peers after client errors boxo#919
• kad-dht provider/reprovider improvements
  • feat: Reprovide Sweep libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht#1082
  • provider: duplicated CIDs sent to provide queue boxo#901
• TBD: Negative range requests are not implemented correctly #10808
• TBD: reducing bitswap want broadcasts

Nice To Have (Optional)

• boxo/gateway with configurable limits (and sane limit enabled by default)
  • feat(gateway): implement request concurrency limit boxo#887
  • feat(gateway): add configurable response write timeout boxo#812
• feat(cmds): files: add new-root command to change the MFS root #8648
• bug: failed to establish port mapping: goupnp: error performing SOAP HTTP request after LAN (upnp) router restart #9759
• chore: use go-log/v2 #10801
• feat(cmds): files: add new-root command to change the MFS root #8648 as fix for Ipfs daemon hangs when MFS root is not available locally #7183 (comment)
• Deployment plan for AutoNAT v2 #10091
  • AutoTLS: attempts to get cert when not publicly diallable #10570 (depends on autonatv2 client)
• Denylist support fixes and improvements
  • ipfs blockservice is incompatible with sessions ipfs-shipyard/nopfs#34 (NOfs content filtering is not applied to bitswap)
  • Support consuming https://badbits.dwebops.pub/badbits.deny rainbow#126 (same applies to Kubo)
    • denylist: ?format=car does not skip directly blocked CIDs #10361
    • HTTPSubscriber: detect when list is not append-only ipfs-shipyard/nopfs#39
    • HTTPSubscriber: check with If-None-Match or If-Modified-Since ipfs-shipyard/nopfs#38
• Update pubsub and add default validator #9684